Thu.Aug 16, 2018

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How to Recognize, Avoid, and Stop Stereotype Threat in Your Class this School Year

Digital Promise

What can I do in my position to change outcomes for kids? As teachers, we don’t always have a say in decisions that are made in our buildings, the pacing for curriculum, or the content of a professional development day. But, we do have a lot of say about what happens within the walls of our classroom and whether or not ALL of our students feel welcome, safe, and successful.

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10+ ways to use Flipgrid’s newest features in the classroom

Ditch That Textbook

For many students, video is just part of the way they speak. Snapchat. Instagram. YouTube. For many of them, they think in terms of sharing socially. Video has never been more accessible and available to use in classroom settings. Flipgrid is a platform where students can respond to prompts with short video responses. And Flipgrid […].

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Rhythm, blues, and reading cues: How music improves young students’ reading skills

Neo LMS

Children typically become proficient readers sometime between their fifth and seventh birthdays. By the time a child is in second grade, they often become self-conscious if they fall behind and may begin to display behavioral issues, according to Today’s Parent. While not all children will learn to read on the same schedule, there are things we can do as parents and educators to encourage the process.

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Hacking Early Childhood

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Jessica Cabeen, the 2017 Minnesota National Distinguished Principal, and talks about how we can hack and improve early learning. This is a must-listen for kindergarten principals and teachers. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. Jessica Cabeen’s Bio.

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Quickly Create Personalized Learning Experiences that Work

How can we actively engage learners 24/7, on their level and according to their interests, while respecting their learning styles? It’s not impossible. In this guide: Explore how to transform traditional, one-way videos into two-way interactive learning experiences Understand different types of artificial intelligence (AI), including - Generative vs.

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Back to School: A Bundle of Lesson Plans at a Great Price

Ask a Tech Teacher

Lots of teachers want to integrate tech into their class but picking what to use among the thousands of offerings is daunting. Where to purchase: Teachers Pay Teachers. Price: $9.99. Details : for grades K-12. five resources, from posters to pedagogy to lesson plans. 175 pages, delivered digitally via PDF. available only through Teachers Pay Teachers.

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How an Experimental Online Course Helped One Anthropology Department Keep a Professor and a Half

Edsurge

When budget woes threatened faculty reductions in the anthropology department at Kansas State University, one professor decided to address the shortfall by teaching differently. The professor, Michael Wesch, has a long track record of teaching innovation. He’s won a national teacher-of-the-year award and his viral videos about education earned him praise from Wired magazine.

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Behind the Scenes of TED-Ed’s Wildly Popular YouTube Channel for Students

Edsurge

When Kim Preshoff’s students watch some animated TED-Ed videos, they don’t know that she was the one who came up with the lessons and wrote the scripts until the credits roll. The New York state-based high school environmental science teacher doesn’t like to make a big deal about it in front of her students, but when they find out, they’re usually in awe.

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SEL should be an easy sell for U.S. schools and districts

eSchool News

In light of tragic events that have put a spotlight on school safety issues, it’s more important than ever to understand the value of students’ social and emotional learning (SEL). While many districts have started conversations about SEL and its correlation to student success, it’s time to start acting. The majority of students face daunting socioeconomic and emotional pressures.

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EdTech as a Tool for the IB Classroom of the Future

100mentors

This post is part of a 4-part series highlighting how teachers can put the IB Learner Profile into practice and expand their students’ consciousness. As an IB teacher, you already know the unique challenges of teaching the pillars of the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile in your students. Educating a new generation of citizens of the world means rethinking the process of value, attitude, and behavioral acquisition (Wells, 2011), and this is no small feat.

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What The Heck Is Media Literacy All About?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

With the pervasive spread of the Internet and web technologies, digital media consumption and production practises have acquired new critical dimensions. There is a massive exposure to all types of.read more.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Teaching open-mindedness engages students with different interests

100mentors

This post is part of a 4-part series highlighting how teachers can put the IB Learner Profile into practice and expand their students’ consciousness. As an IB teacher, you already know the unique challenges of teaching the pillars of the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile in your students. Educating a new generation of citizens of the world means rethinking the process of value, attitude, and behavioral acquisition (Wells, 2011), and this is no small feat.

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The Multiple Uses of Augmented Reality in Education

EmergingEdTech

Classroom learning as we know it is undergoing change at an unprecedented rate. Technology has made its way to the classroom, increasing the engaging and interactive elements that many students are. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Back to Classwork Quickly – Google Classroom

Teacher Tech

Return Quickly to the Classwork Page In the new Google Classroom, the action is no longer happening on the Stream. Now you need to click on the Classwork to post assignments. Same is true for students, they skip the Stream and go straight to the Classwork page. Currently, returning to the Classwork page is a […]. The post Back to Classwork Quickly – Google Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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What Is The Best Way To Have Podcast Listeners Communicate With You?

TeacherCast

Speakpipe is an online voice recorder that allows you to create an online voice message system for your podcast, blog, or classroom. | TeacherCast. The post What Is The Best Way To Have Podcast Listeners Communicate With You? appeared first on The TeacherCast Educational Network.

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Reimagining Chickering & Gamson's Principles Post-Pandemic: Technology's Central Role in Modern Edu

This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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3 tips to make inquiry a part of your IB lesson plan

100mentors

This post is part of a 4-part series highlighting how teachers can put the IB Learner Profile into practice and expand their students’ consciousness. As an IB teacher, you already know the unique challenges of teaching the pillars of the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile in your students. Educating a new generation of citizens of the world means rethinking the process of value, attitude, and behavioral acquisition (Wells, 2011), and this is no small feat.

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Can We Create a Curriculum around Video Conferencing?

TeacherCast

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we welcome Stacey Roshan on the program to talk about the power of Video in the classroom. Stacey is a veteran teacher who for the last 7 years has been flipping her classroom through interactive and engaging videos. One of Stacey’s favorite platforms for video is Zoom, a… The post Can We Create a Curriculum around Video Conferencing?

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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

Edsurge

When students master a competency, have they mastered it for life? And how can they continue to build on competencies through employment or demonstrate that growth? Those were a couple of questions that popped up at #DLNchat on Tuesday, August 14. The conversation was guided by our special guest Executive Director of C-BEN (Competency-Based Education Network), Charla Long.

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Apps to Help Students with Their Math Homework

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Below is a collection of some good iPad apps to help students with their math homework. They provide detailed instructions on how to solve a wide variety of math problems covering different.read more.

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Behind the Bell: The Underlying Impact of Tardiness in K-12 Schools

Managing a K-12 campus with constant pressure to meet performance metrics is challenging. And tardiness can significantly limit a school from reaching these goals. Learn more about why chronic lateness matters, and key strategies to address the following impacts: Data errors caused by manual processes Low attendance and graduation rates that affect a school’s reputation Classroom disruption, which leads to poor academic performance High staff attrition and “The Teacher Exodus” Unmet LCAP goals t

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3 Student Engagement Strategies To Mathematize Any Activity

MIND Research Institute

Math is everywhere and in everything, but the math experiences that students are exposed to are often very limited. From worksheets and textbook problems, to activities that focus only on the calculations, many math experiences are not engaging to students in a dynamic way. This lack of engagement is a contributing factor to the critically low proficiency rates across the nation.

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The 2018 ‘Horizon Report’ Is Late. But It Almost Never Emerged.

Edsurge

The story behind the latest Horizon Report —which ranks tech trends in higher education—is easily more dramatic than the document’s actual conclusions. But both are available as of today. A panel of 71 experts convened by the New Media Consortium worked for months to dig through research and make recommendations for this year’s report, following a process that had been honed over several years.

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Back to Classwork Quickly – Google Classroom

Teacher Tech

Return Quickly to the Classwork Page In the new Google Classroom, the action is no longer happening on the Stream. Now you need to click on the Classwork to post assignments. Same is true for students, they skip the Stream and go straight to the Classwork page. Currently, returning to the Classwork page is a […]. The post Back to Classwork Quickly – Google Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Problems with Airport Guest WiFi and how to solve with the right network design

SecurEdge

Airport WiFi: the bane of the business traveler or jet-setting social media star. If you’re tasked with managing an airport WiFi network, or are responsible for the implementation and design, then you know how daunting it can be to manage and monitor a network on this scale.

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Enhancing HyFlex Education through the PowerTeaching Framework

This whitepaper explores integrating the PowerTeaching pedagogical approach within a HyFlex (Hybrid Flexible) educational model, focusing on employing cooperative learning strategies and efficient classroom management techniques.

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Are you a regular principal or a New Learning Leader?

eSchool News

School principals recognize their unique positions as digital evangelists and are evolving to lead their schools into a new era of learning, according to new data on school leadership. New data from Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up survey, packaged in a report along with Blackboard, shows that the “new” school principal has skills and values that “inherently emphasize the importance of personalized learning and effective school-to-home communications.” This new approach,

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The Power of First Lines: Another New Library Orientation

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

School is back in session in Georgia, and I’m once again reorganizing what happens in the first visit to the library. I’ve tried to steer away from a traditional orientation where students hear the do’s and don’ts in the library. It’s not that they aren’t important, but is that really the message I want to send about reading with the first words that come out of my mouth?

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21 Questions You Absolutely Should Ask Your Students On Their First Day Back To School

Fractus Learning

It’s a new school year, and with it comes an entirely fresh group of students in your classroom. Each of these children have their own story – their own unique dreams, fears and goals. And you […].

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7 Steps to Transforming Your Spelling Instruction

MiddleWeb

In Super Spellers, Mark Weakland offers a “transformative path” to move away from memorizing 20 words weekly toward a developmental approach that provides students with strategies to become more proficient spellers, readers and writers, says Kathleen Palmieri.

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The Battle of the Authoring Tools: A 10-Point Comparison for Picking the Right One

Speaker: Chris Paxton McMillin, President of D3 Training Solutions

There are plenty of great authoring tools for developing eLearning, but the one you select could directly impact your course's outcomes. Depending upon your learners’ needs and your organization’s performance goals, you could be overlooking considerations that impact the both effectiveness of your courses and how long it takes to finish them. From general capabilities to specific workflow structures, some aspects are critical when it comes to learning objectives and deadlines.

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12 Ways To Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom

TeachThought - Learn better.

12 Ways To Use Bloom’s Taxonomy In The Classroom by Terry Heick Bloom’s Taxonomy is a powerful teaching and learning tool that But 12 Ways To Use Bloom’s Taxonomy in The Classroom 1. Map curriculum 2. Plan project-based learning 3. Design an assessment 4. Improve an assessment 5. Personalize learning 6. Support students in […].

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Using Math Workstations for Engaged Learning

MiddleWeb

Rebecca Crockett's one-size-fits-all math station rotations weren’t meeting the needs of all her students. In Math Workstations in Action she found a clear explanation and a set of steps to organize workstations around needed fluencies and to gauge student progress.

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Tweet Recap, w/e 08-18-18

EmergingEdTech

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … How an award-winning UBC. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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Back to Classwork Quickly – Google Classroom

Teacher Tech

Return Quickly to the Classwork Page In the new Google Classroom, the action is no longer happening on the Stream. Now you need to click on the Classwork to post assignments. Same is true for students, they skip the Stream and go straight to the Classwork page. Currently, returning to the Classwork page is a […]. The post Back to Classwork Quickly – Google Classroom appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the EdTech Industry: Assessing the Influence

AI-powered tools like virtual assistants and chatbots provide instant guidance and support, while data analytics offer valuable insights for educators and administrators.